Word: lagging
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Ptolemy, one of the greatest of the Greek astronomers, wanted nothing more than to explain the eccentric wanderings of the five known planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Why, for example, did Saturn seem at times to forge ahead of Jupiter in the sky, and at other times lag behind it? To fit this movement into the prevailing earth-centered view of his day, Ptolemy assembled meticulous records of planetary movements. In A.D. 140, he made a good guess about Saturn. Because of its slow pace, he deduced that it lay in the most distant of the heavenly spheres...
...York state study of "Black Students at White Colleges" revealed that Blacks who lag behind whites in the proportion who get good grades at A and B levels the first, second, and third years of college are ahead of whites in the proportion who get good grades the fourth year...
Genentech, like the other major genetic-engineering firms, faces serious problems in profiting from its research. Obtaining approval for new products from the Food and Drug Administration is expensive and timeconsuming. Notes Cetus President Peter Farley: "The lag time between discovery and marketing for a pharmaceutical product is five to 20 years." In addition, the four tiny DNA pioneers will be competing soon with such multinational giants as Du Pont, Upjohn and General Electric. Although the U.S. Supreme Court decreed this summer that new life forms could be patented, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has yet to rule...
...call for a firm stand against Soviet aggression and for higher defense spending. But the Democrats, in a dramatic turn-around from their 1976 platform, which insisted on military budget cuts, also urge the strengthening of U.S. defenses. Both parties, in fact, blame each other for letting Pentagon expenditures lag. Both also favor building the MX missile, though a sizable minority of Democrats were bitterly opposed. The Democrats fault the Republicans for emphasizing the "primacy of power politics" at the cost of American principles. The Democrats also call for more aid to the Third World: "It is unacceptable that...
Overall, the hoopsters compiled a 24 mark on the tour, somewhat troubled by jet lag, unfamiliar food and an intense travel and sightseeing schedule. But everyone agreed the trip was the thing...